b/ai curious

a smörgåsbord of blockchain/ai infra & dev tooling updates

Not even 24 hrs since being announced as a POKT Gateway, and the Chainstack 💙🛠️ team is already making significant contributions to the Gateway stack, collaborating with Nodies.

This is so f*ckin BULLISH.

Long live the Gateway Co-opetition!

github.com/pokt-network/g…

📢 Huge News! We're announcing three new businesses building on top of POKT Network's DePIN.

Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀), Porters (backed by Raid Guild ⚔️), and @Chainstack. ⚡

It's a major ramp up of our growth strategy.

It also highlights a big vision for DePIN.

Want to know what it is?

.POKT Network, a decentralized API solution, will be integrating with Solana. Pocket incentivizes people to run full nodes by providing a decentralized API for developers needing data for their applications.

medium.com/solana-labs/po…

Solana was planning for this level of growth all the way back in 2020.

x.com/i/article/1774…

⚡️NON-STOP NODIES AT IT AGAIN!

The Nodies team has rolled out an upgrade for the Gateway Server, introducing fresh features!

One dope feature is the brand-new endpoint API, enabling Gateway operators to share QoS data with node operators. A much-requested addition!

The

Working in web3 is forgetting to set your clocks for daylight savings but remembering to upgrade your nodes for the Dencun fork

'Tis the week of hard forks, and our team has been hard at work! All of our #Ethereum nodes are now ready for the EIP-4844 upgrade. We are also prepared for subsequent L2 ( #Optimism , #Arbitrum , #BASE , etc.) updates ushering in a new era of lower gas fees! #BringOntheBlobs

Planq partners with Nodies!

The Planq Blockchain is growing fast, and more users have been active on the Network.

📲To ensure a good user experience on the network, top-of-the-class infrastructure is a must.

⚡️This is why we have decided to partner up with Nodies,

ETHDenver 🏔🦬🦄 RHINO League.Tech Nodies API3 Zeno Exchange 🏛️ Metis🌿 LazAI Finally, the experts Nodies deliver robust architecture ensuring builders could perform at their peaks! 🏔️

Their infrastructure serves OVER 1 trillion RPC requests across 25+ chains and counting! 📡📈

Follow their X & check out their products at nodies.app!

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POKT Network I’m with Nodies and they are crushing it. Love to see their progress and excited for the future

Announcing the launch of the Gateway Server!

Now it's easy for any RPC provider or app to under-DePIN their service with our unmatched scalability and resilience, at just $0.85 / mil.

Plug in to c.15k nodes, in 22 countries, supporting 50+ chains.

More in thread. 👇

We are proud partners and thrilled to offer high-performance RPC services for Metis. Calling all Metis🌿 developers – come build with us! We’d love to support you! 🌿

Season 2 of Community Testing for the #Metis Decentralized Sequencer is LIVE!🌿

After a massive Season 1, with over 195K contributors, 500M points earned, and 4M Testnet transactions, it's time to level up!🚀

Additionally, Nodies is joining Season 2 as an official RPC

Privacy-enhanced RPC networks grant, awarded by Nym to Nodies. ✨

Under-DePIN-ed by POKT Network.

The universal RPC base layer.

We are excited to announce our partnership with Handshake! 🤝

Learn more about how we're revolutionizing #web3 for decentralized access for all: masqbrowser.com/blog/masq-hand…

The first round of grants from Nym Innovation Fund is out!
🎉 Congratulations to successful teams:

👛 𝕊tar𝕊hell: a privacy-preserving wallet for the Secret Network
🌐 Nodies: for privacy-enhanced RPC networks
📩 PasteNym by NTV (ℵ): for private text drops.

Donations on Polygon | Aggregated count towards the QF grant from Polygon round…Help us secure up to 10,000 MATIC from Polygon on top of community donations!

Every contribution matters! 🚀💰

Donate on @giveth here: giveth.io/qf/all?searchT…